title: Are we predictive engines? Perils, prospects, and the puzzle of the porous perceiver.
abstract: The target article sketched and explored a mechanism (action-oriented predictive processing) most plausibly associated with core forms of cortical processing. In assessing the attractions and pitfalls of the proposal we should keep that element distinct from larger, though interlocking, issues concerning the nature of adaptive organization in general.
authors.affiliation: School of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH12 5AY, Scotland, United Kingdom. andy.clark@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: Andy
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Clark
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*